Windows/Mac/Android: Renting movies online is considerably less popular than streaming things with a subscription or even free with ads. Hitbliss helps this by allowing you to watch ads to earn money you can use to rent TV shows or movies.

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The app demands quite a bit more attention than regular ads, since it's being used for market research. As you watch, Hitbliss will check to ensure that you're paying attention by asking you to press enter. You also can't run the app in the background and just let it play while you do other things.

While this sounds like a chore (and it is), there's an upside: it's fairly easy to save up enough virtual cash for something you actually want to watch. In the course of 10-20 minutes, you can get enough to rent a top-dollar movie (like The World's End above, which I earned the cash for after about 15 minutes). Ads may be annoying, but that's at least a decent return on your time investment.

It's worth pointing out that, when I fired this app up, it informed me that the Amazon rental service was an "experimental feature" and implied that it was not available to everyone. While it's unclear just who gets access to Amazon's library, or if it will ever be available on a wider basis, it should be mentioned that your mileage may vary.